Education.

Members of the NBER's Education Program met November 14-15 in Cambridge. Program Director Caroline M. Hoxby of Stanford University organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* C. Kirabo Jackson, Northwestern University and NBER, and Diether Beuermann, Inter-American Development Bank, "Do Parents Know Best? The Short and Long-Run Effects of Attending the Schools That Parents Prefer" (NBER Working Paper 24920)

* Richard Murphy, University of Texas at Austin and NBER; Simon Burgess, University of Bristol; and Ellen Greaves, Institute for Fiscal Studies, "Deregulating Teacher Labor Markets"

* Cher Li, Colorado State University, and Basit Zafar, Arizona State University and NBER, "Ask and You Shall Receive? Gender Differences in Regrades in College"

* Peter Bergman, Columbia University; Eric W. Chan, Babson College; and Adam Kapor, Princeton University and NBER, "Housing Search Frictions: Evidence from Detailed Search Data and a Field Experiment"

* Kevin Mumford, Purdue University, "Student Selection into an Income Share Agreement"

* Andrew Foote, US Census Bureau, and Kevin M. Stange, University of Michigan and NBER, "Attrition from Administrative Data: Problems and Solutions with an Application to Higher Education"

* Christopher Neilson and Franco A. Calle, Princeton University, and Sebastian Gallegos, Inter-American Development Bank, "Screening and Recruiting Talent at Teacher Colleges Using Pre-College Academic Achievement"

* Kelli A. Bird and Benjamin L. Castleman, University of Virginia; Jeffrey T...

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